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The Idealized America

Our ideas of what it means to be American have changed dramatically over time. Since the arrival of peoples...

The Philippine Insurrection

to when the US declared war on Spain, Theodore Roosevelt, who was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, order Commodore George Dewey to...

Culture and Personality, African Americans

a significant subculture in American society as a whole, as it accounts for 41.1 million American or roughly 13.5 percent of the p...

The American ideal of Beauty

wonders now what prompted him to be so superficial, stupid and shallow. Therefore, this wide-ranging documentary is his quest to f...

'Revolutionary' Citizenship and the American Experience

This paper considers how the modern concept of citizenship has been shaped by the American experience and also features a comparat...

Risks Associated with the Funding of Foreign Trade with Companies in Bangladesh

trade tariff at 13%, but these are accompanied by many other barriers to trade, all of which increase the costs of trade, as well ...

A Look at Civil War Black Soldiers and Sailors

slaves played a role during the Civil War in eventually seeing freedom is as follows: "By running from masters to become contraban...

Teen Obesity

This research paper pertains to data on the prevalence of obesity among American adolescents. This information reveals that it is ...

The Harlem Renaissance and the Literature of Black America

of Education, which occurred a month after his death. Locke is considered to be an intellectual. He had no illusions about color...

Intercultural Communications and Irish Americans

massive prejudices against immigrants and of extraordinary displacements of people from their communities of origin, the question ...

Culture and Child Abuse

In five pages the African American community is considered in terms of the incidences of child abuse in other cultural comparisons...

Colonialism

This essay/research paper, first of all, defines colonialism and discusses how it can be differentiated from imperialism. Then, t...

Pidgins and Creoles, Origins, Features

This research paper/essay discusses how pidgin and Creole languages develop, emphasizing the influence that African Americans have...

Aspects of European and American History

This paper presents discussion of five issues that pertain to European and American history, such as the factors that compelled Eu...

Trespassing My Sojourn in the Halls of Privilege by Gwendolyn M. Parker

been one of the smartest children in a class, the teachers now refused to acknowledge her raised hand in answer to one of their qu...

African Americans Historiography

In six pages this research paper considers African Americans' historiography. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....

Turquoise and its Mystique

In eight pages this paper discusses the historical allure of turquoise in this consideration of Native American art and the Americ...

The Resiliency and Pathology of Black American Families

5 pages and 5 sources. This paper relates two different perspectives on the African American family in the modern era, one based ...

U.S. Ethnic Family Profiling

In nine pages profiles of Amish, Mexican American, and Italian American family structures as featured in 3 chapters from the text ...

Cinema and Sexuality

crisis of Lester Burnham, a subplot provides a telling commentary on way that homosexuality has been perceived in this culture. Th...

Solar Storms by Linda Hogan

In five pages this paper discusses this Native American text in terms of differences in worldviews between the Native Americans an...

Overview of Chinese Americans

In seven pages Chinese Americans are considered in terms of their American historical significance with political struggles and ra...

Social Concerns in Latin American Colonial Times

remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not onl...

Culture, Demographics and Socioeconomics of the Black American Family

earned a bachelors degree by March 2000. This is considered as the highest degree of educational attainment ever recorded in Afric...

American Diversity

and economic issues must be considered along with positions of ethnic and religious minorities as well as issues that go to enviro...

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Psyche of American Slaves, Ghosts, and Myths

are somewhat consistent with superstitions followed by the slave culture of the time and a segment of the African heritage of the ...

Transcultural Nursing

such as communication, space, and time are relevant to these cultural issues. Communication and culture are interrelated, and many...

William Faulkner Biography

Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...

Slavery Reparations and African Americans

times a day (82). Food is an interesting consideration. Other documentation on slave diets is rather dismal. This subject creeps i...